(Commentary) Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan political analysis and handicapping newsletter at the University of Virginia Center for Politics produced by Larry J. Sabato, indicates Blackburn has an uphill battle to being Tennessee’s first female U.S. senator. Sabato is the center’s director. “The Senate elections in the 2018 cycle feature two contrasting forces: highly polarized, partisan voting in elections running up against a tendency for non-presidential party incumbents to do well in midterms, even in states that backed the other party in the most recent presidential election,” the n...
Kyle Kondik with the University of Virginia says Pelosi -- the only female speaker in the nation’s history -- can be a divisive figure. “Democratic leadership has been around for a while and frankly is getting up there in age, too,” Kondik said. “That there might be a feeling that there should be some new blood in the leadership.”
This tribalism has infected both the right and the left—but in particular, Beinart cited the work of W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia who has concluded that “rates of religious attendance have fallen more than twice as much among whites without a college degree as among those who graduated college.”
Skeptics dismissed Operation Desert Storm, fought from mid-January to the end of February 1991, as a “video-game war,” over almost before it began. Stump disagreed. The war “was a really big deal… It validated that America was back in business.” Such sentiment worried the University of Virginia’s Elizabeth K. Meyer, a professor of landscape architecture, and the lone dissenter on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the body entrusted with the task of deciding what does or does not get built in the nation’s capital. When the commission heard testimony from Stump and others, Meyer pushed back. “Th...
Beginning with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a string of presidents used taping equipment with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Their motives ranged from defending themselves against inaccurate news leaks (F.D.R), to help in preparing memoirs and developing political leverage. Along the way, these tapes become an invaluable historical resource, says Dr. Marc Selverstone, an associate professor in presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, and chair of the Center's Presidential Recordings Program. "They're an incredible and powerful window into the way power works," says Dr....
Carolyn Engelhard, a public-health specialist and an associate professor at the University of Virginia, said Charlottesville-area consumers shouldn’t just look at the price of Anthem’s plans, but should compare provider networks and pharmaceutical coverage. “It’s really interesting that they decided to enter now,” Engelhard said. “But it’s a matter of looking at whether the plans are really better for consumers.”
(Commentary by Brad Carson, a professor at UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) The Department of Defense is overhauling the military personnel system for the first time in a generation. And the changes, some large, others small, all indicate that the department has finally embraced the “talent management” revolution that swept the private sector more than two decades ago.
"Colors" takes as its point of departure a poem written by then twelve-year-old Zoe Kusyk, a student in Charlottesville, Virginia, a 2016 winner of “Writer’s Eye,” an annual competition held by the Fralin Museum of the University of Virginia that “challenges writers of all ages to create original works of poetry and prose inspired by works of art on display in the Museum.” “Colors,” was a response to a 1977 painting by Larry Poons, a cascade of liquid hues pulled by gravity into parallel but active rivulets, now remaining distinct, now mingling.
The PRA report included a case study on South Africa titled Pursuing Property Titles for Low Income Households in South Africa compiled by Jessica Canada, a Ph.D. student in economics at the University of Virginia and Jason Urbach, a director of the Free Market Foundation.
“A number of birds (e.g., eagles, hawks) were significant in different cultures for many reasons, but I’ve never read anything about them being bred in a prehistoric village,” said co-author of the study, archaeologist Stephen Plog, at the University of Virginia. “Even today, for example, eagles are very important in Hopi ritual, but they are gathered from nesting sites just before the birds are ready to fledge and then are raised in the pueblos.”
To conduct the study, George's colleagues visited museums to sample the remains of 20 scarlet macaws, many of which trace back to Pueblo Bonito, the Chaco Canyon great houses that the National Geographic Society excavated from 1920 to 1927. “The main reason we have these macaws is National Geographic,” says study coauthor Stephen Plog, an anthropologist at the University of Virginia.
But the macaw bones revealed an unexpected result. George and co-author Stephen Plog, a professor of archaeology at the University of Virginia, were shocked to find all 14 macaws were extremely genetically similar—so much so that it appeared 71 percent of them likely shared a maternal lineage.
(Commentary) On top of all of this, in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted with the University of Virginia, 39 percent agreed that "white people are currently under attack in this country," while 31 percent said they strongly or somewhat agree that America has to "protect and preserve its White European heritage."
University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville was ranked as the top hospital in Virginia for the third consecutive year.
The Piedmont Workforce Network is inviting people looking for a job to a fair on Wednesday at the Northside Library from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Several companies will have representatives on hand to talk to attendees, including the University of Virginia.
A jury in Atlanta has convicted a Nigerian man on federal charges related to hacking universities. Prosecutors said in a news release Monday that 34-year-old Olayinka Olaniyi and co-defendant 29-year-old Damilola Solomon Ibiwoye ran several phishing scams targeting employees at U.S. colleges and universities, including the University of Virginia.
(Commentary co-written by Ben Castleman, associate professor of education and public policy) In a few short weeks, millions of low-income students will return to high school, college or a vocational institution to continue their progress toward college and career. Too few of these students will have the supports they need to make it across the graduation stage.
Somewhere in the American Southwest or northern Mexico, there are probably the ruins of a scarlet macaw breeding operation dating to between 900 and 1200 C.E., according to a team of archaeologists – including UVA archaeology professor Stephan Plog – who sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of bird remains found in the Chaco Canyon and Mimbres areas of New Mexico.
Gloria Graham, the University of Virginia’s vice president of safety and security, said UVA officials worked with the student organizers of Saturday’s protest and supported them wholeheartedly, “It was a peaceful protest, and we support peaceful protests,” she said.
The NBL has lured another aspiring NBA talent to Australia this summer with NBA draft pick Devon Hall joining the Cairns Taipans. Hall was drafted in the second round (pick 53) by Oklahoma City Thunder earlier this year after a stellar career at the highly ranked University of Virginia.